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to the extent of introducing the Master of the Horse, the Master 
of the Buck hounds, and other officers of state, into that body ; 
and for these reasons they had declined assenting to any such 
alterations. 
“ Mr. Nevvdigate observed, that it was not the wish of the Gover- 
nors of the Royal Veterinary College to have any such alterations 
made; they had no desire for any change in the governing Council 
of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons. 
“ Mr. T. W. Mayer thought the gentlemen present on the part of 
the Governors misapprehended the position the veterinary profes- 
sion had assumed. It should be remembered that, six years* ago, 
they had requested the Governors to obtain for themselves and the 
profession generally a Charter of Incorporation; that this had been 
refused; in consequence of which they had, at the cost of great 
labour and very considerable expence, obtained one for themselves. 
Not willing, however, to assume any position at all hostile to the 
existing institutions, they had requested that that Charter should be 
on some such plan as the College of Surgeons, in order that the Col- 
lege of Veterinary Surgeons should be placed in the same relative 
position to the veterinary schools as the College of Surgeons was 
to the medical schools: they had obtained this, and they conceived 
it was no more than what they were justly entitled to. Sir James 
Graham wished parties to be introduced into the Council totally 
unconnected with the profession. This, the honourable gentleman 
said, was not the proposition of the Governors of the Royal Veteri- 
nary College; and it was, therefore, but an act of justice to put the 
Council of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons in full pos- 
session of the alterations required. 
“ A long and animated conversation followed, in which the mem- 
bers of the Deputations on both sides took part, and which termi- 
nated in the Governors consenting to hand over for the opinion of 
the Council the proposed alterations, which had been prepared with 
the approbation of the English Agricultural Society and the High- 
land Agricultural Society of Scotland. 
“ His Royal Highness, after again expressing his good wishes for 
the benefit of the veterinary profession, and his hope that this in- 
terview would be productive of good, and adding his willingness 
to attend on any future occasion if required, left the chair, and 
the Deputation shortly after separated. 
“Thomas Turner, 
“ President .” 
As a consequence of this interview a copy of the existing Char- 
ter, with the alterations and additions required to be made therein 
by the Governors of the Royal Veterinary College, was received 
